Rick Cecil, co-founder of ruzuku, shares his experiences in the first week of the Triangle Startup Factory. Eight weeks ago, my furnace stopped working. Six weeks ago, my water heater started leaking. Four weeks ago, a pipe burst in my bathroom. (I still have a [...]
Big changes are afoot here at Ruzuku. We’re redesigning the course pages to help better guide students through the learning process. Today I’m sharing the new activity page designs (you can see the life-size version on Forrst): Most of the changes involve streamlining the information [...]
February was full of performance and technology updates. We’ve implemented fragment caching to help boost responsiveness in discussions and upgraded to jQuery 1.7 to boost AJAX-based interactions. I also moved all of our JavaScripts to the foot of the document. This means pages load faster [...]
This January Ruzuku got a new team member: me! I’m Rachel Nabors, the new front-end developer. A front-end developer wrangles all the HTML, CSS and JavaScript on a site so that visitors have a faster, more consistent experience across all your devices and browsers. I’ll [...]
We know how much work goes into creating a great course. But for the course to really be as meaningful as it can be, you have to connect with your students in a meaningful way. And that’s why we love Julie Dirksen’s book Design for [...]
Something very cool has happened in the last few weeks — the program Teach Now is now on ruzuku! As their tagline says, this course is designed for participants to “inspire, renew, and give courage” to the their teaching. Curious as to why Teach Now [...]
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: we love getting user feedback! That’s why we were so excited to see consultant and blogger Meredith Eisenberg write a review for ruzuku. Not only does Meredith explain how she set up her course, she took [...]
We had such a great time running our Teaching Sells + ruzuku Giveaway, and we hope you had fun too! It was so much fun that we actually decided to pick TWO winners. The winner of six free months of ruzuku is… DEB ROBSON! Our [...]